
# File: index73-2.txt
# Issue: 182, 1973-09-15, p.30
# Period: 157-182

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# A

Abelard and Heloise, 159
Aesop and his fables, 58
Agostini, Giacomo, Italian motor-cyclist, 169
air, its composition, 181
aircraft, how flight takes place, 178
aircraft, take-off operations, 158
airman, clinging to plane in mid-air, 161
airman, parachuteless fall, 175
airship, pioneers, 161
Alkmade, Nicholas, parachuteless fall, 175
Amazon Rain Forest, 172
ambergris, substance from whale, 158
America's Cup, yachting trophy, 182
Ancient Egypt, Meydum pyramid, 162
Andersen, Hans Christian, 177
Animal Wonderland:$
  bats, 172
  bison, 163
  butterflies, 157-164
  dogs, 157-161
  earthworms, 180
  elephants, prehistoric, 181
  fasting, 175
  feathers, 178
  fish, how they swim and breathe, 158
  games creatures play, 162
  giant jumbos, 181
  goldfish, 161
  hare, 168
  help for one another, 166
  jackdaw, 170
  kingfisher, 167
  languages, 173
  lobster, 169
  mole, 176
  moths, 157-164
  sea-horses, 159
  sea slugs, 177
  speech and cries, 173
  tails and their uses, 165
  wombat, 159
Antarctic, strange sights, 158
Anthems Of The Nations:$
  Belgium, 168
  Canada, 173
  Denmark, 172
  Europe, 174
  Finland, 174
  France, 167
  Germany, 174
  Greece, 174
  Luxembourg, 174
  Maldive Islands, 174
  Netherlands, 171
  Spain, 174
  Tibet, 174
  United Kingdom, 170
  United States of America, 169
  Zambia, 174
Antony and Cleopatra, 158
Any Questions?:$
  air, its composition, 181
  battery, how it works, 176
  dew, where it comes from, 180
  flight, how aircraft rise, 178
  railway lines, why they are banked, 177
  shadow, why we cast one, 181
  stars, nearest ones to Earth, 181
  steam, what it looks like, 181
  torch, how it works, 176
  whip, why it cracks, 180
aquarium, glass tank for fish, 182
Arakwe, ship that fired cheese ammunition, 177
archaeology, science in excavations, 159
Archaeology, how it started, 175
Archaeology:$
  Masada suicide, 182
  Mayan city, 176
  mummies, disappearance, 74
  Nefertiti, 179
  Nineveh, 178
  Sutton Hoo ship, 180
  underwater excavations, 181
  Ur discoveries, 173
  Wild West excavations, 177
  Woolley, Leonard, at Ur, 173
Arizona, surfing lake in desert, 168
Artemis, Temple at Ephesus, 157
Art Galleries:$
  Chicago Art Institute, 170
  Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 173
  Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 168
  Louvre, Paris, 163
  Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, 174
  National Gallery, London, 167
  Pitti Palace, Florence, 171
  Prado, Madrid, 164
  Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, 169
  Tate Gallery, London, 172
  Uffizi, Florence, 165
  Van Gogh, Amsterdam, 166
astrology, science of the skies, 164
Avery, John, pirate, 169

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# B

bacteria, vital place in life, 161
bag, history, 162
bagpipes, history, 157
ballet, preparations, 163
Ballet, series:$
  Billy the Kid, 165
  Coppélia, 170
  Giselle, 174
  La Sylphide, 172
  Nutcracker, 164
  Petrushka, 169
  Polovetzian Dances, 175
  Rite of Spring, 167
  Rodeo, 176
  Romeo and Juliet, 166
  Scheherazade, 173
  Spartacus, 171
  Swan Lake, 168
balloons, in astronomy research, 177
Bastille, escape, 171
bats, species, 172
battery, how it works, 176
Belbenoit, René, escape from Devil's Island, 170
Belgium, national anthem, 168
Betrothed, The, story, 157
Billy the Kid, ballet, 165
birds, helicopter fear, 161
birds, jackdaw, 170
birds, kingfisher, 167
Birds Of The World, series:$
  bowerbirds, 171
  food, 181
  frigate bird, 180
  hoatzin, 174
  hunters, 182
  life span, 177
  long-distance flights, 179
  long-tailed, 176
  nests, 172
  strange species, 173
  swimmers, 178
  tools used in getting food, 175
  water-birds, 178
bison, American animal, 163
Black Bart, highwayman, 176
Blackbeard, pirate, 167
blind, guide dogs, 179
blind-spot, human failing, 182
Blue Riband Of The Atlantic, 162-166
'Bomba' stamps, 179
Bonnet, Major Stede, Pirate, 165
borzoi, dog, 161
Botticelli, Sandro, Florentine painter, 165
Bougrat, Pierre, escape from Devil's Island, 158
bowerbirds, 171
boy lost in Russia and China, 159
brain, vast memories stored, 175
bricks, manufacture, 157
Brittany, emerald coast, 174
Brodie, Deacon, trial, 160
Browning, Robert, 172
Bruce, Robert, 166
Brueghel, Pieter, Flemish painter, 168
buildings, air-filled plastic kinds, 176
bulldog, 159
bunyip, Australian monster, 163
Burns, Robert, 171
Butterflies And Moths, series, 157-164
butterfly fish, 157
Byron, Lord, 173

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# C

Caillaux, Henriette, trial, 161
Canada, national anthem, 173
canal-builders, 165-166
Carcassonne, ancient city of France, 172
Cardiff Giant, ancient statue fake, 181
carpets, history of Persian, 167
carrot, vitamins, 164
Casanova, escape from prison, 182
Catherine, queen's jewels stolen in the French Revolution, 165
Cetewayo, Zulu chief, 173
charcoal, new uses for old fuel, 160
Charles II, oak-tree hiding-place, 176
Chicago Art Institute, 170
Clausewitz, Karl von, Prussian general, 160
Clive, Robert, 169
clothing, paper material, 167
coalmine, escape from Rhondda explosion, 175
cocker spaniel, 158
cog railway, Mount Washington, 180
communications, pioneers, 168-169
Cooper, James Fenimore, 178
Coppélia, ballet, 170
coral fish, 157
Corfu, island, 177
cosmetics, history, 175
Couples, Famous:$
  Abelard and Heloise, 159
  Antony and Cleopatra, 158
  Denis, Armand and Michaela, 157
  Helen and Paris, 160
Cowper, William, 162
Cruyff, Johan, Dutch footballer, 170


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# D

Dante Alighieri, 163
Deerslayer, The, story, 178-182
Denis, Armand and Michaela, 157
Denmark, boys who saved Jews, 166
Denmark, national anthem, 172
Dentistry Through The Ages, 175-177
Devil's Island, escapes 158, 170
dew, how it rises, 180
Dickens, Charles, 159
Dogs, series:$
  borzoi, 161
  bulldog, 159
  cavalier King Charles spaniel, 161
  cocker spaniel, 158
  Komondor, 160
  Lowchen, 160
  mastiff, 159
  Rhodesian Ridgeback, 160
  St. Bernard, 157
  Siberian husky, 457
dreams, Greek valley of, 170

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# E

Earth, ancient beliefs about structure, 165
Earth, Man making it hotter, 179
earthworms, life history, 180
elephant, prehistoric ancestors, 181
Escape! series:$
  Bastille escape by Latude, 171
  Belbenoit, from Devil's Island, 170
  Casanova from the Leads, 182
  Charles II's oak tree, 176
  children trapped in snow, 180
  coalmine in Rhondda, 175
  Garibaldi, from Austrians, 172
  Lipari, political prisoners, 179
  Mawson in Antarctic, 174
  Nithsdale, Lord, from the Tower, 173
  Pilsudski, Polish leader, 177
  Tibbles, saved from hangman, 178
  wooden horse of Stalag Luft, 181
Europe, national anthem idea, 174
Everglades of Florida, 171
eye, blind-spot, 182


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# F

feathers, structure, 178
finger nails, 170
Finland, national anthem, 174
fire, Man's ways of making, 168
Fire of St Anthony, 164
fish, goldfish, 161
fish, how they breathe and swim, 158
fish, land walkers, 173
fish, tree climbers, 173
Fish, Fantastic:$
  butterfly, 157
  coral, 157
  parrot, 157
fishing fleet, Russian navy's attack on, 174
Florida, Everglades forest, 171
Forests Of The World, series:$
  Amazon Rain Forest, 172
  Asia, 174
  Australasia, 175
  Central Africa, 169
  Everglades of Florida, 171
  North America, 170
  Northern Europe, 173,
France, national anthem, 167
Francis of Assisi, 164
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 173
frigate bird, 180
full point, value in Punctuation, 161


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# G

Gardens Through The Ages, 158-164
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, escape from Austrians, 172
General Grant, ship that vanished, 171
germs, vital part of life, 161
Gilpin, John, Cowper's poem, 162
Giselle, ballet, 174
glass fibre, manufactured products, 174
Goethe, Johann, 170
Gogh, Vincent van, Amsterdam collection, 166
goldfish, life-story, 161
Gould, Shane, Australian swimmer, 161
guide dogs, for blind, 179

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# H

haggis, Scottish dish, 170
Hals, Frans, 173
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 159
hare, life-story, 168
Helen and Paris, 160
helicopter, pioneers, 164
hoatzin, South American bird, 174
Hobbs, Jack, 160
Horses, Famous:$
  Alexander's Bucephalus, 180
  Appaloosa of Red Indians, 178
  Arab horses, 182
  Caligula's Incitatus, 174
  Cortes and El Morzillo, 175
  Cossacks, 176
  Moore (Ann) and Psalm, 177
  Spanish Riding School, 179
  Smythe (Pat) and Flanagan, 177
  Wellington's Copenhagen, 181
Houston, super-city of Texas, 160
How It's Made:$
  brickmaking, 157
Humboldt, Alexander von, 180
hurricanes, tracing their paths, 172
hypnotism, history, 163

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# I

ice-breaker, new kind, 62
Idun, Norse god's daughter, 179
Indianapolis 500 race, 159
insects, new ways of destroying, 171
Isandhlwana, Zulu war, 173
ISLANDS OF THE WORLD, series:$
  Corfu, 177
  Jamaica, 181
  Majorca, 180
  Nauru, 178
  Orkneys, 182
  Sark, 179
  Tahiti, 176

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# J

jackdaw, life-story, 170
Jamaica, Caribbean island, 181
jeep, motor-vehicle, A723
Joan, girl who became Pope John, 165


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# K

Kaspar Hauser, mystery boy of Nuremberg, 157
Keats, John, 169
Kelly, Ned, bushranger, 173
keys and locks, 157
Khayyam, Omar, Persian poet, 165
Kidd, Captain pirate, 171
Kidd, Captain, trial, 157
Killy, Jean-Claude, French skier, 168
king, Persian crowned before birth, 160
King Charles spaniel, 161
kingfisher, life-story, 167
Knights, series, 176-182
Komondor, dog, 160
Korbut, Olga, Russian gymnast, 163


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# L

Lamb, Charles and Mary, 171
Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare:$
  Merchant of Venice, 174-176
  Midsummer Night's Dream, 171-173
Lancia, Vincenzo, Italian motor-car designer, 157
Lapland, people and reindeer, 166
La Sylphide, ballet, 172
L'Atlantique, liner whose doom was foretold, 168
Latude, Masers de, escape from Bastille, 171
lifeboat, rescue preparations, 157
lighthouse, pioneers, 175
lighting, pioneers, 162-163
Lipari, escape from Mussolini's prison, 179
lobster, life-story, 169
locks and keys, 157
locomotive, journey preparations, 159
L'Olonois, French pirate, 166
Lonsdale Belt, boxing trophy, 178
Looking At The Sky, series:$
  ancient beliefs about stars, 165
  astrology links, 164
  astronomers, 166
  planets, 163
  search for other worlds, 168
  solar system model, 166
  solar system's origin, 167
  star constellations, 162
  zodiac, signs, 164
Louis, Prince, death in Zulu war, 175
Louvre, Paris, 163
Low, Ned, pirate, 173
Lowchen, dog, 160

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# M

McCabe, Florence, Pearl Harbour premonition, 162
Madoc, Welsh explorer, 168
Mahan, Larry, rodeo rider, 158
Majorca, Balearic island, 180
Man And His Horse, series:$
  Alexander and Bucephalus, 180
  Appaloosa of Red Indians, 178
  Arab horses, 182
  Caligula and Incitatus, 174
  Cortes and El Morzillo, 175
  Cossack riders, 176
  Moore (Ann) and Psalm, 177
  Red Indians, 178
  Spanish Riding School, 179
  Smythe (Pat) and Flanagan, 177
  Wellington and Copenhagen, 181
Masada, archaeology reveals mass suicide, 182
mastiff, dog, 159
Matterhorn, Alpine peak, 163
Maubreuil, Marquis de, stole jewels of Queen Catherine, 165
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 60
Mawson, Douglas, Antarctic explorer's escape from death, 174
Mayan city, archaeological discovery, 176
memory, brain's power of storing, 175
Merchant of Venice, story, 174-176
Merckx, Eddy, Belgian cycle champion, 157
Mesnet, Jean, foretold loss of L'Atlantique, 168
Meydum, Ancient Egyptian pyramid, 162
Midsummer Night's Dream, story, 171-173
Milton, John, 174
mole, life-story, 176
Monet, Claude, Louvre collection, 163
Monti, Eugenio, bobsleigh champion, 164
monuments, old and new, 160
Morgan, Henry, pirate, 170
Moths And Butterflies, series, 157-164
motor-car, race across the world, 182
mountaineering, preparations, 160
Mount Washington Cog Railway, 180
mummies, taken from Egyptian tombs, 174
Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, 174

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# N

National Gallery, London, 167
Nauru, island State, 178
Nefertiti, Ancient Egyptian queen, 179
Nepal, Himalayan kingdom, 162
Netherlands, national anthem, 171
Nicklaus, Jack, American golfer, 166
Nightingale, The, story, 177
Nineveh, archaeological discoveries, 178
Nithsdale, Lord, escape from the Tower, 173
Norsemen, Myths:$
  Idun, Odin's daughter, 179
  Odin, the chief god, 178
  Thor the explorer, 181-182
  Trolls, 180
North Sea, oilfield tank, 166
nuclear power, mini stations, 170
Nuremberg, mystery of Kaspar Hauser, 187
Nurmi, Paavo, Finnish runner, 159
Nutcracker, The, ballet, 164

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# O

octopus, giant of Serrana Cay, 179
Odin, chief of Norse gods, 178
oil, from shale rock, 169
oil tank, in North Sea oilfield, 166
OK, expression's origin, 173
On The Right Track, series:$
  disc brakes, 164
  fog-master, 163
  Indianapolis 500, race, 159
  Lancia, Italy's racing car, 157
  Mini- Cooper cars, 165
  Peugeot, small car's success, 158
  riding mechanics, 160
  sparking plug, 161
  Tripoli Grand Prix, 162
orchids, flower's history, 182
Orkneys, Scottish islands, 182


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# P

paper clothing, 167
parachute pioneers, 180
Paraplegic Games, 174
parrot fish, 157
Pathfinders:$
  airship men, 161
  canal- builders, 165-166
  communications pioneers, 168-169
  helicopter men, 164
  lighthouse builders, 175
  lighting pioneers, 162-163
  parachute pioneers, 180
  plastics men, 178
  printing-type makers, 170
  spinning machines, 181
  steamship men, 176
  telegraph men, 168
  telephone men, 169
  transistor inventors, 179
  type makers, 170
  welders, 157
peanut, vegetable with many uses, 158
Pearl Harbour, premonition of attack, 162
Persia, king crowned before birth, 160
pests, new methods to destroy, 171
Petrushka, ballet, 169
Pickwick Papers, story, 159-170
Piggott, Lester, English jockey, 165
pin, history, 164
Pilsudski, Joseph, escape from Citadel, 177
Pinkerton, Allan, private detective, 157
Pirates, series:$
  Avery, John, 169
  Blackbeard, 167
  Bonnet, Major, 165
  Kidd, Captain, 171
  L'Olonois, 166
  Low, Ned, 173
  Morgan, Henry, 170
  Read, Mary, 172
  Roberts, Bartho, 168
Pitti Palace, Florence, 171
planets, sizes, 163
plants, milk from, 169
plastics, buildings of, 176
pioneers, 178
Plasticine, history, 164
Poets, Great:$
  Browning, 172
  Burns, 171
  Byron, 173
  Cowper, 162
  Dante, 163
  Goethe, 170
  Keats, 169
  Khayyam, Omar, 165
  Milton, 174
  Shelley, 164
  Tennyson, 175
  Villon, Francois, 166
  Whitman, Walt, 168
  Wordsworth, 167
point, use in Punctuation, 161
Polish family exiled to Siberia, 167
Polovetzian Dances, ballet, 175
Prado Art Gallery, Madrid, 164
printing-type, pioneers, 170
puppetry, history, 167

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# R

radio telescopes, 157, 170-172
Raleigh, Sir Walter, trial, 158
Raphael, Florentine painter, 171
railway, Mount Washington cog, 180
railway lines, why banked on curve, 177 
Read, Mary, pirate, 172
Ready For The Start, series:$
  aircraft take-off, 158
  ballet, 163
  lifeboat, 157
  locomotive driver, 159
  mountaineering, 160
  theatre show, 162
  TV musical, 161
regiment of giant soldiers, 172
reindeer, Lapland herds, 166
Reisiger, Peter, German boy in China and Russia, 159
Rembrandt, Dutch painter, 169
Renoir, Pierre, French painter, 170
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, English painter, 172
Rhodesian Ridgeback, dog, 160
Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, 169
Rite of Spring, ballet, 167
Roberts, Captain Bartho, pirate, 168
Rocky mountains, 171
Rodeo, ballet, 176
Romeo and Juliet, ballet, 166
Rorke's Drift, Zulu wars battle, 174
Rubens, Paul, Flemish painter, 174
Rudomin, Polish family exiled to Siberia, 167
Ruth, 'Babe', American baseball player, 167

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# S

St. Anthony's Fire, 164
St. Bernard, dog, 157
saloon-car racing, 171
San Marino, 159
Sark, Channel Islands, 179
sasquatch, Canada's strange monster, 169
Scheherazade, ballet, 173
Scopes, John, trial, sea-horses, 159
Seaman, Richard, British racing driver, 162
sea slugs, 177
Serrana Cay, giant octopus, 179
shadow, why we have one, 180
Shaka, Zulu chief, 172
shale, oil-bearing rock, 169
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 164
ship, cheeses fired in land battle, 177
ship, loss of General Grant, 171
Siberian husky, 157
sight, blind-spot in vision, 182
silicones, non-stick qualities, 180
silver, hallmarks, 181
Skylab, Space station, 160
slugs, sea kinds, 177
solar system, origin theories, 167
solar system, scale model to make, 166
soldiers, Prussian king's regiment of giants, 172
Space research, Skylab station, 160
sparking-plug, development, 161
Spartacus, ballet, 171
speedway racing trophies, 177
Sperati, Jean de, stamp forger, 178
spinach, vegetable's value, 165
Spitz, Mark, American swimmer, 161
Sports Superstars:$
  Agostini, Giacomo, Italian motor-cyclist, 169
  Cruyff, Johan, Dutch footballer, 170
  Gould, Shane, Australian swimmer, 161
  Hobbs, Jack, English cricketer, 160
  Killy, Jean-Claude, French skier, 168
  Korbut, Olga, Russian gymnast, 163
  Mahan, Larry, rodeo rider, 158
  Merckx, Eddy, Belgian cyclist, 157
  Monti, Eugenio, Italian bobsleigh, 164
  Nicklaus, Jack, American golfer, 166
  Nurmi, Paavo, Finnish runner, 159
  Piggott, Lester, English jockey, 165
  Ruth, 'Babe', American baseball player, 167
  Spitz, Mark, American swimmer, 161
  Thorpe, Jim, Red Indian athlete, 162
Stamp Stories:$
  'Bomba' stamps, 179
  British Guiana one-cent, 175
  Columbus' error, 182
  Connells resignation, 181
  forgeries by Sperati, 178
  frescoe fakes, 180
  Lady Gomm's Mauritius, 176
  origin, 174
  Russian arctic flyers, 177
Stars, series, 162-167:$
  astrology science, 164
  balloons for research, 177
  constellations, 162
  nearest to Earth, 181
steam, what it looks like, 181
steamship, pioneers, 176
Stories:$
  Betrothed, The, 167
  Deerslayer, The, 178-182
  Merchant of Venice, 174-176
  Midsummer Night's Dream, 171-173
  Nightingale, The, 177
  Pickwick Papers, 159-170
Sutton Hoo, ancient ship, 180
Swan Lake, ballet, 168

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# T

table tennis championships, 180
Tahiti, Pacific island, 76
Tate Gallery, London, 172
Teeth, dentistry series, 175-177
telegraph and telephone pioneers, 168-169
Telescopes, Famous, series, 168-172
Telescopes, radio, 157, 170-172
Telescopes, reflecting, 169
Telescopes, refracting, 168
television musical, preparations, 161
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 175
theatre show, preparations, 162
Thor, Norse god of exploration, 181
Thor, meeting with giant, 182
Thorpe, Jim, Red Indian athlete, 16:
Tibbles, Thomas, anti-slavery man's escape from hanging, 178
titanium, metal from sand, 165
Top Trophies, series:$
  America's Cup, 182
  Lonsdale Belt, 178
  speedway, 177
  table tennis, 180
  World Cup, 179
  world drivers, 181
tramcar, history, 182
transistors, pioneers, 179
Trials, Famous, series:$
  Brodie, Deacon, 160
  Caillaux, Henriette, 161
  Kidd, Captain, 157
  Raleigh, Sir Walter, 158
  Scopes, John T., 169
Tripoli Grand Prix, 162
Trolls, Norsemen legend, 180
Tubman, Harriet, 179
Turner, J.M.W., English painter, 167
type, pioneers of printing, 170


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# U

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 165, 171
Ulundi, Zulu wars battle, 176
underground railways, history, 177
United Kingdom, national anthem, 170
United States of America, national anthem, 169
university, life at the modern, 161
Ur of the Chaldees, treasures unearthed by Woolley, 173


# ------------------------------------
# V

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 166
vegetables, shape of future, 178
Velazquez, Madrid Prado collection, 164
Villon, Francois, French poet, 166
Virgin Mary, statue that affected a village, 164
vivarium, making and stocking, 181

# ------------------------------------
# W

Wallis, Barnes, bouncing bomb inventor, 167
welding, pioneers, 157
Wesley, John, 162
When Knights Were Bold, series, 176-182
whip, why it cracks, 180
Whitman, Walt, American poet, 168
wombat, Australian animal, 159
Wonders Of The Modern World, series:$
  Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 159
  Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 160
  metallurgy, 158
  monuments and tombs, 160
  national parks, 159
  radio telescopes, 187
  Temple of Artemis, 157
  Zeus statue, 158
wooden horse, escape from German prison camp, 181
Woolley, Leonard, British archaeologist, 173
Wordsworth, William, 167
World Cup, soccer trophy, 179
worlds, search for others in Universe, 168

# ------------------------------------
# Z

Zeus, statue at Olympia, 158
Zodiac, signs, 164
Zulu, wars series:$
  Cetewayo, 173
  Isandhlwana battle, 173
  Prince Louis death, 175
  Rorke's Drift, 174
  Shaka the Great, 172
  Ulundi massacre, 176